He added: “People in Britain, I think, want to help children but we don’t want to be taken for a free ride either by people who seem to have got to the front of the queue even though they clearly look, in some cases, a lot older than 18.”

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The Monmouth MP went on to say: “They will do it with a smile on face, but they do it because it takes that little bit longer to sort the case out, and the longer people can stay here the less likely they are going to get removed.”

“We must not be naive about this. It’s no good Lily Allen turning up with tears in her eyes and all the rest of it - we need to be quite hard-nosed here.”